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TREMAYNE: Remembering the emotional day at Silverstone when fate – for once – smiled on Johnny Herbert

F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne looks back at a triumph that no one expected, but that was richly deserved after Johnny Herbert had been battered and cheated by fate.

Hall of Fame F1 JournalistDavid Tremayne
Johnny Herbert, Grand Prix of Great Britain, Silverstone Circuit, 16 July 1995. Johnny Herbert

I guess it was on Lap 51 of the 1995 British GP at Silverstone that the penny finally began to drop. There’d been a false dawn five laps earlier, but now it looked like it really was going to happen.

Johnny Herbert – ‘The Imp’ as Perry McCarthy had christened him in F3 – was actually going to win a Grand Prix... and on his home ground to boot.

Winning at home is the greatest buzz. Just ask Lewis Hamilton, or Nigel Mansell.

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